Is there a plugin that allows rendering sectional views. Zorro 2 is not an option 'coz it takes a lot of time when the model is large. Moreover, it deletes geometry, which I don't want to happen.

@gaieus said:

Me

oops,. i meant who uses free version...

thanks a lot man...

@gaieus said:

Maybe it's in the Pro version only however.

who uses a free version..??

i remember in version 7 I could change the sun angle...a circle used to come and i would set the north...but i can't find this option in version 8..

isn't there a better way than ghost comp? because i'm working on a housing projects and it has lot of housing units. [varying from 16 to 20 storeys high]..the site is huge, and I want to work on the site model. I was going to the site model with the xrefs of each type of units [located as separate files for each of the towers.]. I can't seem to find a good way

@tig said:

Xrefs in SKPs are NOT like Xrefs in DWGs.
They are full inserted copies that simply know what the external SKP it came from is and if it's been updated suggested you reload it... Therefore adding SKPs into a SKP [Xref'd or not] will increase the file size.
It not possible to do it in the DWG manner where the Xref is a true 'eXternal-REFerence' and the host DWG is barely affected by having it inserted...

so...what's the best way to keep my model lighter, apart from working in groups and layers??

will using xrefs for my model actually make it lighter...for example if I have

a 14 MB model

a 12 mb model of a building block

If I copy paste the latter one in 14 mb one..the filesize may become...26MB
will using an xref of the 12 mb one into 14 mb make the file size 18 mb or so??

Hi everyone....i'm learning ruby so that i can write my own plugins...Can anyone tell me how to convert a .rb file to .rbs and vice versa??

@tig said:

Here's v1.1 http://forums.sketchucation.com/viewtopic.php?p=313264#p313264
It includes View menu item and toolbar with dialog entry of angles - the Ruby Console version works as before for those of you not wishing clutter... The toolbar only gets made if there's a png file so that's a simple way to stop that being created if you don't want it!

Thanks a lot!!

@tig said:

As well as a toolbar you'd need a dialog for the angle ?

yeah....whatever is possible....